Good Friday and welcome to the frozen tundra of Kentucky. A serious blast of arctic air invaded the state with a bang last night. Thundersnow was reported in many areas of central and eastern Kentucky as our mini blizzard worked through here. A general 1″-3″ (locally higher for some in the east ) of snow caused roads to become snow covered and they remain so early this morning.

The big story of today is the arctic wind and cold. But, the story of the weekend will be additional snow makers dropping in from the northwest.

Let’s break it down…

– Temps this morning will start out in the high single digits and low teens. Wind chills will be 0 to -10 and that’s in the danger category.

– A few snow showers and flurries will be possible today as highs reach the upper teens and low 20s. It will never feel that warm because of the gusty winds.

– A clipper moves in on Saturday and this is likely to bring a swath of light snow back into central and eastern parts of the state. A second system dives in for Sunday and will bring another round of snow into the same areas. Combine those two systems with a strong northwesterly wind flow and you can get several inches of snow for some areas.

– The GFS snowfall map through Sunday night shows the concern…

– I’m not going to sit here and be wishy-washy… a strong northwesterly wind flow combining with a couple of systems can produce those types of snow totals.

– The pattern into the first half of next week looks to feature another clipper or two.

I will update the weekend snow chances in greater detail coming later today. Make it a great start to February and take care.

Just a silly observation. So it’s currently 3 in Chicago and 8 in Lexington. It’s 41 in Atlanta. Lexington is about the same distance from both cities, yet the temp difference is much more between here and Atlanta than it is from here to Chicago. I’m bored and rambling at this point.

Brrr, when I went to bed it was relatively warm and rain here in Nashville area, just a few hours later it’s bitter cold wind chills and going back and forth between clear skies and scattered light snow showers.

Man that mini blizzard last night was impressive. Blew open my back door and we could actually feel the snow hitting our faces from 30 feet away through the warm kitchen. First thunder snow for me in a few years. We lost a dear friend to cancer last evening just a couple of hours before the event. She loved snow as does her husband. Thank you God for a beautiful reminder of our lovely friend on this night.

Well here in the tropics of southern Pulaski co, we might have gotten a half inch. Hope we do better over the weekend. Thanks, Chris for all the updates. Just wish you could get some snow down our way. Temp is 14 here. Bundle up and have a great Friday, everyone.

Agree….agreed, Mizz Kate! I’m on the other side of the river and probably can see where you are (if I knew!) from here. Disappointed but at least there is some white with the potential for more this weekend and beyond…sounds sort of Buzz Weatherhead-ish…..

Thanks once again for this blog Mr. Bailey. I love reading it. Are you going to be able to put out a snow map for the Saturday/Sunday snow? I know you didn’t on this last one. I know it’s probably aggravating for folks to get negative when your maps miss, but I always like looking at them. Thanks for considering.

Cold here in Northern Jessamine. My thermometer was showing 2 degrees early this morning, brrrr! Hard to tell how much snow due to all the drifting, but I would guess between 1 and 2 inches. Dead right on the forecast!

We have accumulated snow of around 9 inches so far (I have a wind-proof table outside that currently looks like a big fat marshmallow!) Temps are 12 F right now with light flurries of snow and gusty wind. Than We are looking forward to getting out on the X-Country skis later 🙂

When is the snow for tomorrow supposed to arrive? Anyone care to give a “guesstimate” for SE/KY? It was a beautiful night here in Manchester last night. I am so looking forward to the snow chances through the weekend. Maybe we’ll be lucky and get enough to make a snowman!!

Yes the power was out in parts of Rich last night. Power went out around midnight—came back on at around 5:00 AM. It was just fine for bedtime, but when you have to get up for work in the morning with no power……definitely not my cup of tea! Hehe….

At least it came back on relatively quickly. Stayed snuggled up in the bed and, oddly enough, was even sweating at 3:00 AM with no heat on in the house.

well our NWS dropped the ball on the adv for us last night, they didnt call it until after midnight after the snow was already here, well they just put us under an adv from 10am Sat – 10 AM sunday for 3 – 6 inches of snow!!!!!

Hello Chris & fellow bloggers!!
We have maybe 1/2 inch of snow,but it sure is pretty!! The temp is holding at 17*…I went out to the store for bread milk & snacks…so I am ready for more SNOW….BRING IT ON !!!!!! 🙁 🙂

Seems like we are in the sweet spot of winter snow wise so lets all enjoy this weekend, will probably have thunderstorms again by next weekend, Chris said at 4 some places in east ky could see half a foot, I’ll take a couple more inches in Frankfort!

I have a hard time with the lack of consistency from the weather forecasters. One system we have threat mode for days and when the storm comes by most accounts the forecast is a miss. Today we have a couple of inches of snow, wild chills in the teens, & hazardous travel condition’s with minor fan fare. And now I read the NWS forecast and they are predicting 1-3 tomorrow with another 1-3 tomorrow night. Sorry for the rant of my frustration.

We did it! My part of Richmond had its largest snowfall in nearly two years! 1″. That puts the seasonal total at 1.1″. Oh, the sun did the business and most of it is gone now. This was probably our “big one”.

I think we got a little more than that, but the stuff blew everywhere. My guess is we all got about 2″, but part of that went to the nearest place that stopped it from flying around anymore. 1.5″ to 2″ perhaps. We have now went past the mighty 1″ level. Winning!

All I’ll say is nws went from 2-5 inches total in Somerset area by Sunday morning to 2 inches Sat AM followed by a change over to you guessed it RAIN, then a lull followed by maybe another inch Sat night Sun AM for MAYBE a grand total of 2 inches. I doubt we will see half the GRAND total of 2 inches. This past system produced a coating at best in Somerset. Not gonna believe in significant snowfall again till I SEE IT on the ground and falling from the sky. Models might as well be dartboards for their use here. That is all.

starting get together now, going be some good squalls with this, heaviest look be farther north u go from the KT/TENN border rremember u wanna bo on N/NE side those clippers.

but everyone from Somerset east will see sum snow, defintly see ASHALAND areas of state seeing 3-5 inches, then ur faaaaaaaar SE KY UPSLOPE counties the same. 2-4 as BAILEY mention on ASIR a good bet for viewing area.

A dusting to maybe an inch is what the local mets are forecasting for this area. I’d like to have a little more than that, but it probably works out for the best. Lots of errands to run tomorrow. Those who get snow, enjoy. I’m ready for spring!